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Former President Donald Trump on Thursday reminded globalists on Capitol Hill pushing foreign aid that no one speaks for him but himself.
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The House Freedom Caucus said that the path toward securing the border goes through killing Speaker Mike Johnson's foreign aid package.
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Rep. Thomas Massie said Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is preparing to pass a rule for the foreign aid package using Democrats.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) introduced an amendment to a supplemental funding bill for Ukraine that would require members of Congress who vote "in favor" to enlist in the Ukrainian military.
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The bills in the House's foreign aid package, which will be up for a vote Saturday, would appropriate a combined $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel, and the Indo-Pacific, with a lion's share of $60.84 billion for Ukraine.
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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had kind words for far-left CNN host Jake Tapper Wednesday after the cameras appeared to turn dark.
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Sen. Rand Paul blessed Rep. Thomas Massie's move to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, saying that Republicans need someone with "courage."
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Rep. Thomas Massie told Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Daily on Wednesday that Speaker Mike Johnson "is not equipped" for the speakership.
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Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday backed off support for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) as conservatives have moved to remove him.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told Breitbart News exclusively that she is prepared to force House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) out of his position with a vote to vacate the chair if the Speaker does not willingly resign the position.
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House Republicans’ dissatisfaction with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is rapidly growing as Reps. Scott Perry (R-PA) and Jim Banks (R-IN) are sharing their frustrations about what Banks called “insanity” in Johnson’s foreign aid framework, which includes over three times as much money for Ukraine as it does for Israel while neglecting the U.S. Southern border.
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A defiant House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) declared Tuesday at a press conference he would not resign after being urged to do so by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who is now cosponsoring Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) motion to oust him from the speakership.
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State of the Union: Marjorie Taylor Greene is no longer alone—she gained a crucial ally on Tuesday in her campaign to oust Johnson. The Speaker may not last the week.
Rep. Thomas Massie has announced he will be cosponsoring Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s motion to vacate House Speaker Mike Johnson.
“I just told Mike Johnson in conference that I’m cosponsoring the Motion to Vacate that was introduced by @RepMTG,” Massie posted on Twitter. “He should pre-announce his resignation (as Boehner did), so we can pick a new Speaker without ever being without a GOP Speaker.”
Just prior to Massie’s Twitter announcement, Jake Sherman of Punchbowl News scooped Massie’s support of the motion to vacate. According to Sherman, “[Massie] told Johnson in front of the entire House Republican Conference that he should clean the barn and resign or else he’ll be vacated.”
NEW — TOM MASSIE said in a closed House Republican meeting that he’s going to cosponsor the motion to vacate, per several sources in the room.
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) April 16, 2024
Previously, after Johnson jammed through a $1.2 trillion, 1,000-page minibus that funded the government through fiscal year 2024, Greene filed a motion to vacate. While that motion has so far remained in the hopper, Massie’s endorsement of Greene’s motion means she could trigger the motion by asking for privilege on the House floor at a moment’s notice.
Meanwhile, Johnson is planning to pass four different foreign aid supplemental spending bills under a single rule, a procedural maneuver called a MIRV. If Johnson goes with a MIRV, the House will vote on the rule, then vote on the four different packages. Then the packages that pass will be bundled together in a single bill presented to the Senate.
Meanwhile, Johnson has (for now) told House GOP members there will be an amendment process. Conservatives are going to test just how open that process will be, however. Last night, Rep. Matt Gaetz said he’d like to offer HR 2 as an amendment, which would effectively kill the legislation in both chambers—Johnson, once again, is relying on Democratic votes to get legislation out of the House. Without such an amendment, the aid package will not address border security—the number one issue thus far in the 2024 campaign cycle.
For now, Capitol Hill is playing the waiting game: What exactly will each one of these bills include? Text is expected to be circulated today. What amendments will Johnson allow? Members of Congress simply don’t know.
Meanwhile, Speaker Johnson maintains that he will not be stepping down:
JOHNSON JUST NOW: "I am not resigning."
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) April 16, 2024
It’s fitting that Massie invoked the name of former speaker John Boehner. Boehner’s slow downfall started with a MIRV on trade legislation. Johnson’s swift downfall could end with one.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said on this week's broadcast of "Sunday Morning Futures" that former President Donald Trump was "100%" with him.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office told Breitbart News exclusively that he intends to remain as Speaker of the House after he cast the deciding vote against ending the deep state’s warrantless surveillance of American citizens on Friday.
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Alan Ritchson, the star of Amazon’s hit show "Reacher," claims to be "very disturbed" that police officers can get away with murdering people "all the time" and are never held accountable for it.
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Mike Johnson is mired in a political minefield. What is most likely to cause the House GOP to implode?
“Mike Johnson, he’s literally turned into Mitch McConnell’s twin and worse. He’s a Democrat…. There’s not even any daylight between him and Nancy Pelosi at this point.” Harsh words from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Currently, Greene has a motion to vacate Johnson’s speakership in the hopper. Greene filed her motion to vacate on March 22 when the house was forced to vote on (and passed) a 1,012-page minibus with a price tag of $1.2 trillion. House members had less than 36 hours to read the bill or be blamed with a partial government shutdown. Just 101 Republicans, far short of the majority of the conference, voted for the minibus.
“Remember, last Congress we were all complaining: ‘We can’t even read these thousands of pages before we have to vote on them.’ We’re now back to the House of hypocrites, and I’m so sick and tired of it,” Greene said before filing her motion to vacate. “Why throw out a speaker for supposedly breaking the rules, and now we have a new speaker that is really breaking all the rules. So like, what changed?”
Certainly, a lot could change in the next few weeks if Greene decides to force a vote on the motion to vacate. Between FISA Section 702 reauthorization and Ukraine aid, Johnson finds himself in a political minefield—one false step, and Greene could blow up his speakership.
But where are the mines, exactly? They’re difficult to sniff out, but Greene provided a window into her thinking on a potential motion to vacate in a Dear Colleague letter circulated to Republican House members on Tuesday. “I will not tolerate our elected Republican Speaker Mike Johnson serving the Democrats and the Biden administration and helping them achieve their policies that are destroying our country,” Greene wrote. “He is throwing our own razor-thin majority into chaos by not serving his own GOP conference that elected him.”
“I will not tolerate this type of Republican ‘leadership,’” Greene continued. Making reference to the fights over FISA and Ukraine aid, Green claimed, “This has been a complete and total surrender to, if not complete and total lockstep with, the Democrats’ agenda that has angered our Republican base so much and given them very little reason to vote for a Republican House majority.”
“And no, electing a new Republican Speaker will not give the majority to the Democrats,” Greene wrote, preempting rebukes if she does decide to go forward with the motion to vacate. “That only happens if more Republicans retire early, or Republicans actually vote for Hakeem Jeffries.”
Neither the FISA or Ukraine aid fight seem to be trending in Johnson’s direction. On Wednesday, 19 Republican lawmakers went against Johnson in a procedural vote to move forward on FISA reauthorization legislation.
The vote against FISA came in the wake of a Wednesday post on Truth Social from former President Donald Trump: “KILL FISA, IT WAS ILLEGALLY USED AGAINST ME, AND MANY OTHERS. THEY SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN!!!” on his Truth Social account. Though Trump’s campaign was spied upon using a different FISA authority (not 702) and some members of the corporate media are claiming that the 19 Republicans who stood against the vote to proceed are blindly doing so at Trump’s behest, the battle lines were clearly drawn much earlier in the week. Surely, Trump brought further attention to the issue and put Republicans in the pocket of the intelligence agencies on the back foot by forcing them to answer hard questions from the grassroots, but by no means was Trump’s weighing in on the topic the deciding factor. (Side note: see how the intelligence agencies, corporate media, and establishment work together?)
Johnson has been working for months to reconcile the divide over 702 in the GOP conference, embodied by the House Intelligence and House Judiciary Committees. The House Judiciary Committee wants reforms to increase transparency and accountability in the FISA process, as well as provisions that would require FISA warrants for agencies to sift through information of U.S. citizens caught up in foreign surveillance and ban the government from buying U.S. persons data from private companies.
Johnson tried to split the baby by taking a FISA reauthorization bill from the Judiciary Committee’s Laurel Lee, a representative from Florida, with some but not all of the reforms. First, Johnson prevented, and would prevent any future amendment, on banning data sales from private companies to the U.S. government—a red line for the Intelligence Committee headed by Rep. Mike Turner. FISA warrant provisions, arguably the biggest priority of the Judiciary Committee, were also made part of the amendment process and not included in the bill’s text.
Johnson, before he was speaker, was in favor of FISA reforms, like warrant provisions, that the House Judiciary Committee proposed. As now-Speaker Johnson devised this plan, he seemed ambivalent at first, but has increasingly soured on warrant provisions. Eventually, Johnson came out fully against warrant provisions, claiming classified briefings given to him as speaker by the intelligence agencies gave him a “different perspective.”
Speaker Mike Johnson elaborates on his FISA flip flop from when he was a rank and file member of the House, explaining that after receiving classified briefings he has a “different perspective.” pic.twitter.com/mrLj9ouEji
— Haley Talbot (@haleytalbotcnn) April 10, 2024
No warrant provisions guaranteed, no deal, House conservatives suggest. Leaving the warrant provisions up to the amendment process with an adversarial speaker is too big of a risk. Now, its leg-fare against Johnson’s FISA proposal. House conservatives are trying to force open the amendment process to loosen Johnson’s grip on the process.
“The Speaker of the House put his finger on the scale, against the amendment. And that pretty much is the story,” Rep. Chip Roy of Texas told POLITICO.
Johnson is running out of time to find a deal before Section 702 expires on April 19. Without a deal, Johnson will likely bring a clean reauthorization, which will find broad uniparty support, to the floor. Another vote that potentially courts more Democratic support and less than a majority of the GOP conference could imperil Johnson’s speakership.
But it seems there has been a provisional agreement between the pro- and anti-FISA factions. Johnson has negotiated with conservatives a FISA reauthorization that would expire in two years. They’re betting on Trump becoming president in November. The next FISA renewal will need his signature.
Greene was not among those who voted no on the procedural vote, but she has hinted her support for the final FISA reauthorization is contingent on warrant provisions.
“We do not believe in warrantless spying on the American people, especially when this bill carves out the ability for Congress to be notified when a member of Congress is going to be looked at through the FISA court,” Greene told members of the media. “That’s completely unfair. The same thing should apply for the American people. But Mike Johnson doesn’t have the trust of the conference. That’s become very clear.”
Johnson’s new two-year FISA reauthorization plan does not include warrant provisions.
Greene met Johnson on Wednesday afternoon—the first time the pair met since she filed her motion to vacate. “I got a lot of excuses,” Greene told members of the media after leaving the meeting. “We didn’t walk out with a deal.”
What’s more likely to cause Greene to trigger her motion to vacate Johnson, however, is if Johnson decides to go forward with Ukraine aid.
If Johnson moves forward with Ukraine aid, it would be one of “the most egregious things he could do,” Greene said. Currently, Johnson is working on an Ukraine aid package expected to be worth $60 billion—the same level of funding for Ukraine provided by the Senate’s previously passed supplemental. Johnson, to maximize Democrat votes, is toying with decoupling Ukraine aid from aid to Israel. But to keep some Republican votes so that a majority of the GOP conference supports the package, Johnson is exploring making some of the aid a loan or using the REPO Act to seize Russian assets to fund further U.S. aid to Ukraine.
Chances are any Ukraine funding Johnson hopes to bring to the floor will also be under suspension of the rules. In this case, it’s a guarantee that Johnson fails to secure a majority of the House GOP’s support and a majority of the support for the package comes from Democrats.
“Let me tell you, when he forces that vote, again, under suspension with no amendments, and funds Ukraine and people find out how angry their constituents are about it, that’s going to move the needle even more,” towards a motion to vacate, Green said. “I’m not saying I have a red line or a trigger, and I’m not saying I don’t have a red line or trigger. And I think that’s just where I’m at right now. But I’m going to tell you right now: Funding Ukraine is probably one of the most egregious things that he can do.”
Johnson might have an unexpected savior, however: Donald Trump. On Friday, Johnson and Trump are expected to give a joint news conference during an election integrity event hosted at Mar-a-Lago. Trump is reportedly displeased at Greene’s maneuvering against Johnson. One MAGA world insider even went so far as to say Greene’s motion to vacate is “100 percent distraction. Unwanted. And just stupid.”
“We’re not going to get trapped into this cycle of bullshit that comes out of members of the House,” the Trump insider claimed.
“It’s fair to say we don’t think she’s being constructive,” another person close to Trump told POLITICO. “It’s no way to run a party; it’s no way to run a House. You can’t work in that environment.”
The bottom line: “The internal fighting is not appreciated by [Trump].”
So, Johnson is heading to Mar-a-Lago to not only beat the war drums for Trump’s reelection effort. The two are expected to talk FISA and Ukraine, and potentially do some horse trading on these issues to protect Johnson’s speakership. Over the course of his 2024 campaign, Trump has balked at being labeled “conservative,” opting instead for “common sense.” The former president has always been a pragmatist and dealmaker at heart—his pragmatic streak has been on full display when it comes to the issue of abortion as of late. But is he willing to make a deal to protect Johnson when two of the former president’s key issues—war in Ukraine and the weaponization of the federal government—are on the line and the biggest—border security—goes unaddressed?
Even then, will it be enough to save Johnson. Greene says maybe not; she’s “not backing off at all.”
This story has been updated with information about the prospective two-year reauthorization deal.
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Taylor Swift once called global warming a "horrific situation." But it was apparently not horrific enough to stop her from flying her private jet during her recent "Eras" tour.
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Is this end for yet another Republican speaker?
Members of Congress better have made the most of their two week Easter vacation because April is shaping up to be a doozy.
March seemed busy enough. Congress barely avoided two partial government shutdowns on March 8 and March 22. To avert the partial shutdown on March 22, the last day Congress was in session in March, Congress passed a $1.2 trillion appropriations package. The 1,012-page bill was dropped in the dead of night, around 3 a.m. on March 21. A mere 36 hours later, members of Congress were forced to vote on the package. Under suspension of the rules, the House passed the $1.2 trillion spending package by a vote of 286 to 134. Although the House is in Republican hands, just 101 Republicans—less than half of the House GOP conference—voted in favor of the bill.
After several rounds of continuing resolutions culminating in an appropriations package that did little to secure the southern border and was passed in violation of House rules negotiated with former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, frustration with House Speaker Mike Johnson was reaching a boiling point. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion to vacate the Speaker, but did not ask for privilege on the resolution before Congress left for vacation. The motion remains primed in the hopper.
Johnson reached out to Greene over the Easter break to try and smooth things over, according to Greene, but the effort doesn’t seem to have been very successful. “He reached out to me Thursday night before Good Friday and left me a strange voicemail about how he’s traveling all over and he’s exhausted. And no matter how tired he was, he wanted to try to get on the phone with me,” Greene told POLITICO. “I’m like, ‘Why do I want to talk to someone that’s so exhausted?’” Greene added. “That’s not good.”
Johnson, according to Greene, then texted the Georgia representative on Tuesday proposing a time to chat Wednesday, but Greene counterproposed a Friday talk. Whether the conversation will come to fruition remains unclear.
However that may be, Greene’s motion to vacate poses a major threat to Johnson’s speakership. If Johnson cannot convince Greene to back down, Greene will trigger a vote on her resolution by seeking privilege. If she does, Johnson has 48 legislative hours to handle the resolution.
Nevertheless, Johnson might be able to convince Greene to back down by properly handling an issue set to return to center stage in April: Ukraine aid.
While the Senate has passed a sans–border security $95 billion supplemental aid package for Ukraine, Israel, the Indo Pacific, and various humanitarian causes, Johnson has thus far refused to bring the package to the floor. Increasing Ukraine skepticism among the GOP conference and clear red lines drawn by members to Johnson’s right have made it clear that capitulation to President Biden and the Schumer-controlled Senate on Ukraine aid would mark the end of Johnson’s tenure.
Over the past few months, Johnson has hinted there might be ways to get Ukraine aid through the House without nuking his speakership.
Johnson’s plan, it seems, is to offer Kiev an aid package in the form of a loan, as European countries and institutions have done previously. Johnson would also like to attach REPO Act provisions to future Ukraine aid, which would enable the Biden administration to sell off confiscated Russian assets to provide funding for Ukraine. In the U.S., that funding total amounts to $6 or $7 billion, POLITICO reported. In Belgium, however, $225 billion of Russian assets have been frozen since the war broke out. In addition to REPO provisions, Johnson might try to slip in provisions ending Biden’s ban on new liquid natural gas export applications, which the administration has suggested is a non-starter.
For Johnson, the logic is as follows: Including a plan to offset the cost of Ukraine aid in the long run—no matter how doubtful—is the best chance he has to secure the support of a majority of the GOP conference in a vote on Ukraine aid, given that some Ukraine skeptics have cited runaway spending and the $35 trillion in U.S. debt as reasons for voting against Ukraine aid.
Nevertheless, if Johnson wants to pass Ukraine aid with a simple majority, the bill will have to go through the Rules Committee, where conservative members are represented by the trio of Reps. Ralph Norman, Chip Roy, and Thomas Massie—all Ukraine skeptics. If Johnson wants to bypass the Rules Committee, the Speaker will once again have to opt for passing the package under suspension. Bypassing the Rules Committee, and all House conservatives by extension, would likely lead to another vote where a major piece of legislation passes on primarily Democratic support. Johnson would be toast.
Greene made that abundantly clear to CNN’s Manu Raju. Greene called Johnson’s Ukraine loan proposal a “heaping, steaming pile of bullsh*t” that is “insulting to the American people.” Forcing such a package through under suspension would in turn force her hand, Greene told Raju.
If Johnson wants to placate Greene and other conservatives, and avoid getting the boot, Johnson should pass Ukraine aid attached to the House’s strong border-security bill, HR 2, which previously united the GOP conference. If Ukraine is as big of a priority as Biden and the Democrats suggest, they’ll have to come to the table. If they don’t, then Ukraine wasn’t the world-ending conflict it has been made out to be.
Ukraine aid isn’t the only major issue Congress will have to take on in the coming weeks, either. FISA Section 702 is set to expire on April 19. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, enacted on 2008, permits the National Security Agency to surveil targets in foreign nations. In doing so, however, the NSA collects vast amounts of information and data in dragnets that it then allows the FBI to sift through. The system is rife with abuse. For example, a 2023 court order found that the FBI improperly searched for information in foreign intelligence stores nearly 300,000 times in 2020 and early 2021, including for information on Americans who were at the Capitol on January 6 or participated in George Floyd protests.
Rather than a partisan battle, however, FISA renewal’s current issue is a Committee turf war between the House Judiciary Committee and the House Intelligence Committee.
The source of the disagreement is whether or not the FBI and national security agencies must go to court to obtain search warrants in order to surveil a U.S. citizen. Judiciary, led by Chairman Jim Jordan and Ranking Member Jerry Nadler, wants to add this requirement to FISA, whereas Intelligence, led by Chairman Michael Turner and Ranking Member Jim Himes, wants to leave it out. To no surprise, the Intelligence Committee position has the backing of the intel agencies.
The divide has forced Johnson to pull FISA bills twice already, once in December and once in February. Even when Johnson forced Jordan and Turner to the negotiating table, neither was willing to come to an agreement. Where Johnson goes from here remains unknown, but the advantage seems to be on the side of the Intelligence Committee’s view, given its deep state backing.
Then, of course, there’s impeachment—of the president, members of his cabinet, and maybe more. Last week, the National Archives and Records Administration provided the House Oversight Committee 211 emails with 6,000 pages of records in response to requests made by Chairman James Comer. The House will also be sending its articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate in short order. With a two-thirds majority vote in the Senate needed to convict, both impeachments are doomed to fail. But that’s not the point of the exercise. House Republicans are hoping to air as much of the Biden administration’s dirty laundry as possible before the election.
It’s turning into a maximum pressure campaign. Republican House Committee chairs levied nearly 50 oversight requests to a bevy of agencies over the month of March. One GOP aide told POLITICO that the House GOP does not view these inquiries, which will start to take more shape over the next few weeks, as a replacement for impeachment.
Attorney General Merrick Garland could be the House GOP’s next big target. Oversight and Judiciary are threatening to hold the attorney general in contempt if he fails to respond to a subpoena for the audio recording of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s interview with president Biden in the coming days.
Other oversight efforts by the House GOP included in the slew of requests cover the Biden administration’s management of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the origins of Covid-19, and two DOJ tax attorneys that worked on Hunter Biden’s case.
The appropriations process for fiscal year ’25 should begin this month as well, at least according to statute—but who pays attention to those these days?
One misstep along the way, and Greene could take to the podium to request privilege on her motion to vacate Johnson. If she waits until after April 19, when Rep. Mike Gallagher abandons his post, just one GOP vote could decide whether Johnson keeps the Speaker’s gavel.
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A transgender Harvard professor is boasting about a new course, titled, "Taylor Swift and Her World," which began in February at the Ivy League university.
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CNN anchor Jake Tapper said Wednesday on CNN's "The Lead" that he was not sure if Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) knew who World War II-era British prime ministers Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill were.
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During this week's broadcast of Fox News Channel's "Sunday Night in America," House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) dismissed the ouster initiated by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) as a "distraction."
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Is Taylor Swift the last hope for Biden's flailing presidency? Rob Reiner seems to think so.
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Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said Friday on NewsNation's "On Balance" that she would be "respectful" and attempt to build support before taking her motion to remove Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to the floor of the House for a vote.
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The $1.2 trillion minibus is headed to the Senate, but will House Speaker Mike Johnson be headed for the door?
While the $1.2 trillion, 1,012-page minibus is on its way to the Senate, House Speaker Mike Johnson could be on his way out of the Speaker’s office.
Just before noon on Friday, the House passed the $1.2 trillion minibus, a bundle of six appropriations bills loaded with earmarks, by a vote of 286–134. Just 101 Republicans, less than a majority of the GOP conference, supported the more than 1,000-page bill that was released less than 36 hours before the vote. In forcing the passage of the minibus, Johnson violated a number of rules conservative House members negotiated with former Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California in exchange for McCarthy becoming speaker, such as 72 hours to consider legislation and various government funding metrics.
One Republican member particularly outraged by Johnson’s decision? Georgia’s Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. “Remember, last Congress we were all complaining: ‘We can’t even read these thousands of pages before we have to vote on them.’ We’re now back to the House of hypocrites, and I’m so sick and tired of it,” Greene said.
On Friday, Greene hinted she’d file a motion to vacate Johnson as speaker if Johnson overrode the will of the GOP conference in an interview with Steve Bannon. Just past 11 a.m. eastern time, that’s exactly what Greene did. She marched up to the House parliamentarian’s staff and handed them a resolution. The resolution, later confirmed to be a motion to vacate when Greene posted photos of it on Twitter, headed for the hopper.
“Why throw out a speaker for supposedly breaking the rules, and now we have a new speaker that is really breaking all the rules. So like, what changed?” Greene claimed before filing the motion. “All the precious rules are being broken.”
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) March 22, 2024
Yet Greene left the floor before heading to the rostrum to ask for privilege on the resolution. If Greene does go up to the microphone to ask for privilege at some point on Friday, leadership would be able to delay consideration of the motion for two days, which would take the issue into the two-week-long Easter recess. For now, the motion to vacate Johnson remains in the hopper.
Greene is an odd character to lead the charge against Johnson. When conservatives banded together to oust McCarthy after he worked with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to pass a continuing resolution with mostly Democratic votes instead of appropriations bills, Greene was one of McCarthy’s most vocal defenders. Now, Johnson has passed actual appropriations bills, though conservative wins are few and far between. Whether or not Greene’s past as a McCarthy backer, which has alienated Greene from some of her conservative colleagues, boosts or undermines Greene’s credibility in asking to vacate Johnson remains to be seen. It’s possible, however, that Greene’s character and credibility has very little to do with whether the motion succeeds.
After the string of defeats Johnson has suffered—which, to be fair, are mostly the fault of his predecessor and his Senate counterpart, the lame duck Minority Leader Mitch McConnell—other members might be just as fed up with Johnson. And with the GOP’s razor-thin margins in the House, Greene will only need a few allies to vacate Johnson. As it stands now, Republicans hold 219 seats, and Democrats hold 213. Three vacancies will soon become four as Republican Rep. Ken Buck will be stepping down at the end of the day Friday. Nevertheless, while the razor-thin margins makes it easy to vacate Johnson, it also might make it even more difficult for Republicans to replace him.
At this point, Johnson has to be asking himself if it was all worth it. It’s true: If the minibus does not receive the president’s signature before Friday’s end, the government would enter a partial shutdown. It’s best to avoid shutdowns, surely, but is a shutdown the worst thing in the world? Not when you can win the politics, and not when it’s just over the weekend. “I probably shouldn’t say this. But if we shut down, like, Friday night, nothing gets affected,” Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, a GOP appropriator, claimed. “If there’s a shutdown for a weekend, that becomes a technicality more than a real problem.”
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